LARSON, Oscar John, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Uleaborg, Finland, May 20,
1871; immigrated in 1876 to the United States with his parents, who settled in
Calumet, Mich.; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Northern
Indiana Normal School (now Valparaiso University) in 1891 and from the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1894; was admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Calumet, Mich., in 1894; prosecuting attorney
for Houghton County 1899-1904; moved to Duluth, Minn., in 1907 and continued
the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and
Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law; died in Duluth, Minn., August
1, 1957; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.